The Grass Crown
Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9780671731519 (0671731513)
Publish date: November 1st 1991
Publisher: Simon & Schuster (a)
Minutes: 360
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
Italy,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
Literary Fiction,
War,
Politics,
Roman,
Ancient
Series: Masters of Rome (#2)
Series: Masters of Rome #2 Boy, that felt long! I don’t know my ancient Roman history very well, so I can’t judge how faithful McCullough was to all the facts, but she makes Roman politics sound absolutely mad. Well, all politics are a bit mad, but this runs the gamut from simple bribery to murd...
This is the second book in the Masters of Rome series begun in The First Man in Rome. That first man was unmistakenly Gaius Marius, a flawed but still admirable figure who married Julia, an aunt of Julius Caesar, making him a brother-in-law to Lucius Cornelius Sulla. A secondary character in the fir...
The follow up to The First Man in Rome, and the rivalry begins between Gaius Marius and Lucius Cornelius Sulla. And in the city of Rome, a little boy is starting to grow up. Wonderful read, but you should read TFMiR first, to get the basics down. One of my favourite novels, and a desert island keepe...
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